November 26, 2006 by Amy.

I firmly believe that everyone needs a best friend to experience life with.  I thank God everyday for bringing mine into my life.  My best friend Jeanine lives in Myrtle Beach and even though we are separated by many miles, she still has the ability to make me laugh like she is right here with me.  While I am sypathetic to her plight, I have to laugh at the directions that she chooses to take in life.  I admire her spunk and her faith that everything will work out……eventually.  In the contest of “who’s day is going worse” she usually takes the cake but explaining it leaves us both laughing.

Thanksgiving day comes to mind as one of those days where she wins the prize.  When I called her to wish her a happy day and tell her that mine was not starting out too good, she lifted my mood right up with her story.  She was on her way to Cape Hattaras for Thanksgiving and a fishing trip with her family.  When they got down to the bridge, they discovered that the Noreaster that passed through had washed out the roads and closed the bridge.  They had to sit in line for hours and hours and wait.  While I was eating turkey and stuffing, she was eating pringles and drinking gatorade between the periodic naps in the back of her truck.  At one point, while she was inside a store talking to someone, the console in her truck caught on fire from a cigarette that she had put out in a coffee cup that she thought was empty.  She put the fire out and hid the damage from her Dad, afraid he would see the idiot that he has for a daughter.  It was too late to eat when she finally got to her destination, so Thanksgiving was postponed for a day.  That was just day one, I can’t wait to hear about the actual fishing part.

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November 24, 2006 by Amy.

I have been working on quitting smoking for 3 weeks and 2 days now and it has been the hardest thing that I have ever had to do in my life.  I wish that when I was sixteen and started smoking, someone older and wiser would have shared their infinite wisdom about the dangers of smoking with me; maybe I would have listened.  No, who am I kidding.  I was sixteen and didn’t listen to anybody.  The point is, if I knew then what I know now I would never have started smoking in the first place.  I mean c’mon, cigarettes KILL people. 

I started smoking when I was sixteen as a stress relief and yes, because I thought it made me cool.  Little did I know that I was actually losing friends because they associated smoking with other “bad influence” behaviors.  How cool is that?  Here I am 11 years later trying to quit the nastiest, dirtiest, filthiest, most expensive habit that I have ever picked up.  I thought I was cool then and now, I regret every minute of it.

I don’t have any children to pass my wisdom onto, but if I did I would make sure to tell them that it is alot easier to not try a cigarette to begin with then it is to quit later down the road.  I have yet to meet a person that says “quitting was easy”.  People who have quit 20 years ago, still say that they crave for a smoke every once in awhile.

No offense meant to smokers.  After everything I just wrote, I still want one!

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